Blackwood Falls is famously regarded as being the most remote and hardest to get to town in all of the Empire. Seated on the outermost ledge of the massive plateau that separates what is commonly thought of as “civilization” and the lawless expanses of the Badlands, Blackwood Falls is literally a city on the edge. The last line of communication with the rest of the world, the first line of defense against incursions from beyond the borders. A tiny dot on most maps, but a place of great importance to many of the world’s greatest institutions and in the imaginations of the King’s subjects. While Blackwood Falls is a rough and wild place by modern standards, it is the lynchpin of the King’s Law and all order of society in the region. Countess Dae was